Girls and women can’t reach their full potential without safe, equal access to information technology and the doors it opens. This gift helps them keep pace in today’s world and safely participate online. It can provide girls with devices and data plans along with trainings on how they can connect with other girls and build networks online, learn about their rights and share opinions without fear of discrimination or harassment. It can also set up development centres equipped with tech and trainings for women looking to grow their computer program skills, digital literacy, careers and even finances through digital banking and savings tools. Ultimately, this gift means a worldwide web of women who can take part and gain independence, on- and offline.
Fight Health Stigma
Help us break down barriers for LGBTQ+ community members and marginalized women and girls, especially when it comes to claiming their right to safely access health care and life-saving treatments. This gift helps ensure that medical, legal and psychological support services are available to anyone who needs them so we can end discrimination and build communities and systems where everyone is free to thrive.
Girls Belong Everywhere
This gift helps ensure that the perspectives of girls in Canada and all over the globe are included wherever decisions are made. It engages girls in schools, refugee camps and a variety of communities to take part in leadership-skills trainings, advisory panels and meaningful interactions with governments, corporations and civil-society organizations. This gift opens space for girls in boardrooms, in politics and anywhere else they want to be.
Help End Global Hunger
Extreme hunger is one of the biggest problems in the world today – and it shouldn’t exist. With your help, we can fix it. This gift provides emergency food so no child has to starve. It also provides farming support so at-risk girls and families in the most climate-challenged parts of the world have sustainable food sources all year.
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